Note 8 — Chapter I · THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
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Philology has been well defined as the cognitio cogniti, and Comparative Grammar, (the branch of Philology which occupies itself with the study of the birth, the development, and the decadence of various languages, together with their divergences and affinities), has deserved the title of Θριγκὸς μαθημάτων φιλολογικῶν, “the coping-stone of philological inquiries.” See Science Comparative des Langues, par Louis Benloew. Paris, 1858.